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Ripperology : a study of the world's first serial killer and a literary phenomenon / Robin Odell.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Odell, Robin.
- Series:
- True crime series (Kent, Ohio)
- True crime series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jack, the Ripper.
- Jack.
- Serial murders--England--London--History--19th century.
- Serial murders.
- England--London.
- History.
- Whitechapel (London, England)--History.
- Whitechapel (London, England).
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xxiv, 272 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, [2006]
- Summary:
- The first study of its kind, "Ripperology" presents a sequential history of literary investigations of Jack the Ripper's crimes and addresses the principal phases of Ripper speculations, including the RrevelationsS of highers-up in Scotland Yard who pretended to know more than they actually did.
- Contents:
- Murder facts file 1888
- Case closed?
- At first hand
- Question of vengeance
- Identity crisis
- Conspiracy and corruption
- Knights of the long knives
- The measure of murder
- The Ripper's legacy.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 255-258) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0873388615
- OCLC:
- 61651695
- Publisher Number:
- 9780873388610
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